After Johnny Depp hinted he might buy the embattled Wounded Knee massacre site in South Dakota to give back to the Sioux, it is still looking for a buyer. It is being sold along with another parcel by its current owner for $4.9 million, although it has been assessed for $14,000, which has enraged tribal members who feel he’s attempting to profit off tragedy.

Artist Walter de Maria passed away at the age of 77. He is best remembered for “The Lightning Field” (1977), a New Mexican land-art piece consisting of 400 polished stainless steel poles arranged in a rectangular arrangement that is 1 kilometer long and 1 mile wide.

Artist Alex Colville passed away July 16. The Canadian artist was best known for his moving, but minimal, figurative paintings of the everyday or the human-animal connection, like a horse charging over the tracks towards a speeding train.